Vending-machine.



R. MOORE. VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED M AY4,1916.

Patented May14,1918.

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VENDING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4. 1916.

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VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 4, 1916. Serial No. 95,352.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, ROBERT Moonn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of McFarlan, in the county of Anson and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending'Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to vending machines and more particularly to machines of this type adapted for selling bottles or other round articles and while it will be found especially useful in dispensing bottled beverages, it may however readily be employed for handling other classes of merchandise, and has for an object to provide a coin controlled vending mechanism'for delivery of any class of merchandise.

Another object is to proved runway or rack bottles.

Another object is to provide 1m roved means for feeding the bottles to e delivery spout.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts as will be hereinafter clearly described and pointed out in the claims, reference b had to the accompanying drawings in w 'ch- Figure l is a perspective view of my. vending machine as in use,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on hne 3-3 of Fig. 2 showing the com operated mechanism.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on line 44 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail section of the coin actuated mechanism.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on line 6-6 provide an imor holding the Re erring more specifically to the drawings in Fig. 1 is shown a practical embodiment of my'improvements in which is used a casing A which is a box like structure having alid B hinged at the rear and provided at its front with one or more hasps B whichswing over the front door 0 and engage the staples C which receive the padlocks D. The front door C it will be noted is about one half the hei ht of the box and is hinged to upper end 0 the front wall E which has the sight opening E protected by glass E.

The casing has an inclined floor F which extends from near the left hand end upwardly and through the right hand end of the casing and outside of the same a suitable distance to hold any desired number of bottles laid on oneside, the bottles being maintained in this extension or runway F by the flanges F the width of the runway or feed way being slightl greater than the length-of the bottles so t at they may pass freely down the runway. At the lower end of the runway within the casing is mounted a delivery drum G which may be made of sheet metal mounted on a shaft G and having. a semi-circular pocket G across its face;

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the shaft G extends through the front of the case and has a knurled hand wheel G thereon for turning the same; the opposite end of shaft G extends through a removable partition H dividing the caslng into front and rear longitudinal compartments in the rear one of which is located the coin actuated mechanism. After passing through the partition the shaft G extends to the rear wall H of the casing and is rotatably mounted in a hearing I secured to said wall H. Within the rear compartment 1 a cam wheel J is rigidly secured to the shaft G said cam having a set of ratchet teeth J and the notch J 2 forming an abrupt shoulder against which one end of the trigger K abuts as shown in Fig. 3; the opposite end of trigger is bifurcated to form a narrow trough K, which is to receive a coin deposited in the chute L; this chute is inclined and its upper end secured adjacent the slotM in which the coin is deposited as indicated in Fig, 3 the upper portion of the chute is left open at one side as indicated at L and a magnet N is secured adjacent thereto to attract and retain slu or unauthorized tokens which may be inserted within the ioo gaged by the pawl Q pivotally mounted in the casing. Above the cam wheel is mounted a horizontal lever or beam P having depending from one end a rod P having a knob P and at its opposite end a rod having at its lower end a lrnob P immediately above the cam wheel J is pivoted a tilting bar Q to one end of which is secured the lower end 03? a tension spring :5 the upper end of said spring being secured to the lever P said spring tending to pull that end of the bar Q upwardly and force its opposite end down upon the trigger K, the upward movement of said bar being limited by the stop pin Q,

in the forwardcoinpartment of the casing and immediately over the runway containing the bottles is placed on ice receptacle S which rests on the ledges A a portion of the bottom of the receptacle being inclined to correspond to the inclination of the runway and the lower face of the same lying in close proximity to the bottles while in the runway; the left hand end of the ice receptacle projects over the drum Gr leaving it free to be rotated over the opening A in the bottom of the casing and extending from said opening is the tray A into which the bottles are discharged singly.

To facilitate the feeding of one bottle at a time to the drum, I provide a block l fitting in the runway at its open end; said block may also have its front face curved to conform to the shape of the bottles or other articles, and at each side of this block is secured a cord T which extends down the runway and is secured to the drum so that the cords may be wound on the said drum. The ice receptacle is to be placed in the cas ingthrough the top by raising the lid B and the drippings from the melted ice falls upon the bottles U, the bottles being fed into thae casing down the runway from the outs1 e.

The machine having been stocked with the bottles of beverage and the ice receptacle put in place and filled and front and top doors securely locked and the parts in position shown in Fig. 3, the operation of the device to vend is as follows:

A coin of the predetermined denomination being inserted in slot M it rolls down the chute L and drops in the trough K of the trigger K; the weight of the coin is such as to overbalance the lower end of the trigger lifting the upper end out or notch J and against the end of tilting bar Q, as indi. cated in dotted lines in Fig. 3 the coin still remaining in the trough K. 'The cam wheel J is now turned in the direction of the arrow until the rounded projection or hump J comes in contact with the trigger whereupon it is lifted higher bein held against the bar Q and the lower on Kswinging clearof the stop gate K and allowing the coin to drop into the box V. As a bottle is insane? lying in the pocket G the continued rotation of the hand wheel G in the direction of the arrow carries the bottle downward and discharges it into the tray A and the next bottle rests against the periphery of the drum until the hum is entirely rotated and the parts brought again to the position shown in Fig. 3 the hump striking the knob P on the end of rod P and causing the rod P to force the trigger into the notch J when the parts become locked and cannot be operatedto discharge another bottle until another coin is introduced into the slot M.

it is necessary to remove the partition H in order to remove the coin box.

it will be seen that l have provided a simple, and eficient coin controlled vending mechanism that constitutes an automatic salesman and one that needs little or no attention, and that its numerous advantages will be readily perceived.

I claim 1. lln a check controlled vending apparatus, a shaft, a cam wheel rigidly mounted on said shaft at one end, means tor locking said cam wheel against rotation in one direction, means for releasing said cam wheel to rotate in the opposite direction, said means including a coin chute to guide the coin; a normally balanced horizontally disposed trigger loclring at one end the cam wheel, and having an open ended coin receivin trough at its opposite end, a stopgate a jacent the open end of said trough, a projection on said cam wheel to engage the trigger when partly tripped by the coin, a checking device to prevent overthrow of the trigger, consisting of a pivoted lever adapted to be engaged at one end by said trigger, a pivoted beam, a sprin connected at one end to said beam and at its opposite end to the pivoted checking lever, said beam carrymg rods at opposite ends, one rod adapted to be engaged by the pro3ection on the cam' wheel and to cause the rod at the opposite end to force the trigger into locking engagement with the cam wheel upon a complete revolution of the shaft.

2. in a check controlled vending apparatus, a rotary shaft, a disk carried at one end thereof, a shouldered notch in the periphery of sa1d disk, a pivoted trigger adapted to engage at one end said notch and at its opposite end to receive a de osited check, and to be artially tripped t ereb y, yielding means or limiting such partial tripping operation, means carried by said disk for further tripping said trigger to discharge the check therefrom, and means actuated by said further tri ping means to restore the trigger to its locked position upon rotation of said disk.

3. In a check controlled vendin apparatus, a shaft, a cam wheel moun on said shaft, ratchet means for locking said wheel till llli

the trlgger being against rotation in one direction, and check actuated means for releasing said wheel mcluding a pivoted trigger having a pocket at one end to receive a deposited check and locking the cam wheel at its opposite end,

partly tripped by the deposited check, a gate closing the trigger pocket during partial trippmg the cam wheel further tripping sai trigger to release said check and permitting complete revolution of said shaft and the delivery drum,ratchet and pawl means for preventing reverse revolution of said shaft, and means operated by the cam wheel for re storing the trigger to normal position to lock the cam wheel against functioning.

.4. In a check controlled vending apparatus, a shaft, a cam wheel rigidly mounted on said shaft at oneend, means for lockin said cam wheel against rotation in one d1- rection, means for releasing said cam wheel to rotate in opposite direction including a coin chute to gulde the coin, a normally balanced horizontally disposed trigger looking at one end the cam wheel, and having an open ended check receivin trough at the opposite end, a stop gate adjacent the open end of said trough, a projectlon on'said cam wheel to engage the trigger when partly tripped by the check, a flexible checking device to prevent overthrow of the trigger, a pivoted beam carryin rods at opposite ends, one rod adapted to Ee operated on by the cam projection to cause the other rod to force the trigger into locking engagement with the cam wheel upon a complete revolution of the shaft, and cushioning means disposed between the pivoted beam and the trigger checking device.

ROBERT MOORE. 

